The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-10-04

Over 5000 Odd Fellows took part IN a
grand parade at Denver, Colorado. Septem
Der 22d.
There we're 10000 strangers IN Evansville.
Missouri, at the Blue and Gray reunion Sep
TENDER D. The feature of the day was the
industrial parade, that was three hours pas
sing given point.
The Georgia Senate has passed the substi-
tute for the Glenn bill, by a vote of % to ID.
II merely withdraws State money from edu-
cational institutes where classes are mixed
and makes the graduates ineligible for teach
ers' places.
E. 5. Wheeler, the iron merchant who
failed recently with liabilities of S2,000,00
and actual assets of about $l5n,000, WAS ar
rested at New Haven, September % at the
instance ofthe Phoenix Bank of Hartford, for
fraud. The local banks held over half q
million in Wheeler's paper, and the proba-
bility is it will be total loss.
At the annual Convention of the National
Association of Union Prisoners of the War,
In Chicago, the Committee on Pensions re-
ported the draft of bill to give prisoners of
war, ninety day men. a half pension, one
hundred and twenty day men two. thirds of
pension, and a full pension to those who
served longer. 1t also provides 81 a day
pension for each DAVIS confinement in a
rebel prison. This bill will be debated to-
morrow.
A City of Mexico despatch of Septem-
Der 22d reports a good deal of uneasi
ness there, IN regard to Guatemala's re-
quest for American interference against
Mexico in the border trouble. 1t Is felt
that such step would do much to
disturb the pleasant relations existing be-
tween Mexico and the United States, which
at present are inducing heavy investments of
American capital in Mexico. The case
against Guatemala is t1at insults had been
offered the Mexican Legation in that coun-
try. 1t is not believed that the United
States will interfere.
Judge Whitehouse, of the Supreme Court
of Maine, has given judgment in the test case
against Michael Burns, who sold liquor in
the original packages imported from foreign
countries, under cover of the United States
law. The judge did not deny that the Fed
eral law existed. but said til 1t Maine had
rights as we'll as other States, and her chief
right was to have her police regulations. She
did not want liquor sold on her soil, and
would not allow the United States to- abet
the breaking of her laws He directed that the
defendant be found guilty, which being done
he fined him $1,000 with one year in jail.
The Treasury of the United States on Sep
TENDER % purchased bonds to the amount of
SO, 494, ZOO including 1854 700 AZ and $780,
600 4 per CENTS Taking iutO consideration
the fact that the circular was issued the same
day, the financial officers of the Treasury
we're pleased with the result. 1t was deemed
best not to make public the names of persons
and firms who sold the bonds, and it is proba-
bic this information will not be furnished
hereafter, The Secretary of the Treasury
had proposed to buy bonds to the amount of
$14,0O0,000. A correspondent says that if the
talk about a threatened panic is simply the
work of stock spectators, the fact that $l4,-
100000 is in the Treasury ready to be liberia
ted rAllnyp the market will
check their little game. New York des-
patch shows that the purchase of bonds
caused an increase in the prices of stocks in
that city.